Tyler on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:13:21 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-b] [s-d] Consultation 193, Priest j


Hehe, oops. Entirely unintentional. I was just doing pseudo-random
assignment. (Meaning that I think of who has been assigned one least
recently.)

Still Consultation 193. I assign it to Priest JamesB.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Invalid, I'm the unbeliever and the scammer.
>
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> Tyler wrote:
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>> Consultation 193. I assign it to Priest j.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:21 AM, <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> I submit the following Consultation specifying "J" as the Unbeliever: {
>>> Did
>>> J destroy all of the game's mackerel save his own? } Arguments: There's
>>> no
>>> plural subject in the sentence "Any Legal Entity may destroy any amount
>>> of
>>> mackerel in their possession as a Game Action." so the impersonal pronoun
>>> refers to the singular "Legal Entity". The word "their" is used
>>> interchangeably in English to serve the purposes of the impersonal
>>> singular
>>> pronoun, and the impersonal plural pronoun. This is not inappropriate, or
>>> ambiguous in normal communication, as whether or not the word is plural
>>> or
>>> singular is picked up from context. If however, the meaning is ambiguous
>>> in
>>> B, and cannot be picked up from context, then the game action did not
>>> occur
>>> as the game action requires the calculation of an impossible or ambiguous
>>> number. So, if the game action destroying everyone's mackerel succeeded,
>>> the game action did not occur due to the game state ambiguity.
>>>
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